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A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.] The king divided his army into three battles. Bacon. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

ambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.

Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Capable of being divided into two parts.

Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. Gray.

f dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to…

Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds.

A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra.

Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.

ad or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale o…

lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

cally, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. -- To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an…

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.